Cong to protest against fuel price hike in city on Thursday

Targeting the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre over the fuel price hike, opposition Congress sought to know why the petrol-diesel rates have gone up despite a fall in international crude oil prices.

The party said it would hold a protest in the city on Thursday over the rising fuel prices.

“The common man has only one question today- when the crude prices are USD 70 per barrel, why is it that petrol prices are Rs 85 per litre and diesel Rs 73 here now?” the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly said.